9. Membership

Member List

Last updated Feb 27 2023. 128 total members, +7 new, -7 existing since the December update.

For transparency purposes, we are disclosing each Guild member’s team, the name/identifier, and a link to their work. This set will evolve over time as members leave core development or change teams.

Team

Name / Link to work

0xSplits

donations.0xSplits.eth

EF DevOps

Andrew Davis

EF DevOps

Barnabas Busa

EF DevOps

Parithosh Jayanthi

EF DevOps

Rafael Matias

EF DevOps

Sam Calder-Mason

EF Geth

Gary Rong

EF Geth

Guillaume Ballet

EF Geth

Jared Wasinger

EF Geth

Marius van der Wijden

EF Geth

Matt Garnett

EF Geth

Peter Szilagyi

EF Ipsilon

Andrei Maiboroda

EF Ipsilon

Jose Hugo de la cruz Romero

EF Ipsilon

Paweł Bylica

EF JavaScript

Andrew Day

EF JavaScript

Gabriel

EF JavaScript

Holger Drewes

EF JavaScript

Jochem

EF JavaScript

Scotty Poi

EF Portal

Jacob Kaufmann

EF Portal

Jason Carver

EF Portal

Mike Ferris

EF Portal

Ognyan Genev

EF Portal

Piper Merriam

EF Privacy & Scaling Explorations (PSE)

Kevaundray

EF Protocol Support

Danny Ryan

EF Protocol Support

Guru

EF Protocol Support

Mario Havel

EF Protocol Support

Peter Davies

EF Protocol Support

Sam Wilson

EF Protocol Support

Tim Beiko

EF Protocol Support

Trenton Van Epps

EF Research

Aditya Asgaonkar

EF Research

Alex Stokes

EF Research

Ansgar Dietrichs

EF Research

Antonio Sanso

EF Research

Carl Beekhuizen

EF Research

Dankrad Feist

EF Research

Dmitry Khovratovich

EF Research

Francesco d’Amato

EF Research

George Kadianakis

EF Research

Hsiao Wei Wang

EF Research

Justin Drake

EF Research

Mark Simkin

EF Research

Zhenfei Zhang

EF Robust Incentives Group (RIG)

Anders

EF Robust Incentives Group (RIG)

Barnabé Monnot

EF Robust Incentives Group (RIG)

Caspar Schwarz-Schilling

EF Security

David Theodore

EF Security

Fredrik Svantes

EF Security

Justin Traglia

EF Security

Tyler Holmes

EF Security

Yoav Weiss

EF Solidity

Alex Beregszaszi

EF Solidity

Daniel Kirchner

EF Solidity

Harikrishnan Mulackal

EF Solidity

Kamil Sliwak

EF Solidity

Leonardo de Sa Alt

EF Testing

Mario Vega

Erigon

Alex Sharov

Erigon

Andrey Ashikhmin

Erigon

Artem Vorotnikov

Erigon

Giulio rebuffo

Erigon

Michelangelo Riccobene

Erigon

Tullio Canepa

Ethereum Cat Herders

Pooja Ranjan

Hyperledger Besu

Ameziane

Hyperledger Besu

Daniel Lehrner

Hyperledger Besu

Danno Ferrin

Hyperledger Besu

Fabio di Fabio

Hyperledger Besu

Gary Schulte

Hyperledger Besu

Jiri Peinlich

Hyperledger Besu

Justin Florentine

Hyperledger Besu

Karim Taam

Independent

Jim McDonald

Lighthouse

Adrian Manning

Lighthouse

Diva Martínez

Lighthouse

Mac Ladson

Lighthouse

Mark Mackey

Lighthouse

Mehdi Zerouali

Lighthouse

Michael Sproul

Lighthouse

Paul Hauner

Lighthouse

Pawan Dhananjay Ravi

Lighthouse

Sean Anderson

Lodestar

Afri

Lodestar

Cayman Nava

Lodestar

dapplion

Lodestar

Gajinder Singh

Lodestar

Nazar Hussain

Lodestar

Phil Ngo

Lodestar

Tuyen Nguyen

Nethermind

Alexey Osipov

Nethermind

Daniel Celeda

Nethermind

Jorge Mederos

Nethermind

Łukasz Rozmej

Nethermind

Marcin Sobczak

Nethermind

Marek Moraczyński

Nethermind

Mateusz Jędrzejewski

Nethermind

Tanishq

Nethermind

Tomasz Stanzeck

Prysmatic

James He

Prysmatic

Kasey Kirkham

Prysmatic

Nishant Das

Prysmatic

potuz

Prysmatic

Preston Van Loon

Prysmatic

Radosław Kapka

Prysmatic

Raul Jordan

Prysmatic

Taran Singh

Prysmatic

Terence Tsao

Status

Dustin Brody

Status

Etan Kissling

Status

Eugene Kabanov

Status

Jacek Sieka

Status

Jordan Hrycaj

Status

Kim De Mey

Status

Zahary Karadzhov

Teku

Ben Edgington

Teku

Courtney Hunter

Teku

Dmitry Shmatko

Teku

Enrico Del Fante

Teku

Lucas Saldanha

Teku

Mehdi Aouadi

Teku

Paul Harris

Teku

Stefan Bratanov

TXRX

Alex Vlasov

TXRX

Anton Nashatyrev

TXRX

Mikhail Kalinin

Addresses and Weights

For member privacy, the order of weights below does not correspond to the names above. These addresses and weights will change over time as members change from full-time to part-time (or vice-versa), and as members are on/offboarded.

Read more about how weighting is determined in 6.3 Weighting

Address

Weight (% of total)

0x5baf47751b4eeE90d7F9fd5EB75c3aD4162421E4

0.3491

0xB61384c05086576ebD647C9217Ce0765Bd748bA1

0.3491

0x2952C5774fCcC6935Fe0F44Ed57c0E7B4ED94972

0.3491

0x784B5955Fe452c67be9c2f594C73C284f55771e7

0.3491

0x384BfE9C770313d13c36F365437ba4C86f7EdfA8

0.3633

0x3ed9D598b2099d99e9e49B1697729027C67926d2

0.377

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0.377

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0.377

0x2D87c6679968a3A15b9B984a5d2C2ECe4B9cc7DC

0.377

0xC9187b5C81d63b289811A4fcb9AC7ADb7103639e

0.4155

0x456287fcC918525d664bB4F62C084BE4E85D019B

0.4275

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0.4506

0x88DCc684da24Fd0aaE0770Dfa2223E7B7476Ad94

0.4506

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0.4506

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0.4726

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0.4726

0x5869C17c8934Ce9f674e88c7d4f8F94DCE193FCB

0.4833

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0.4937

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0x530eca5d32c1bf2865327df76f6dbc73dea1af5c

0.5332

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0.5519

0xd31461D449fBFB88DD8D4E7D8fCcF79389f671E9

0.57

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0.57

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0.5876

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0.5876

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0.5876

0x4Bfa4639Cc1f4554122aBB930Aa897CDAe90d13b

0.5876

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0.5876

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0.5876

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0.5876

0x0906Eb682C6d12EdBE5e0A43E60068E1A7F8bea3

0.6046

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0.6046

0x00cDD7Fc085c86D000c0D54b3CA6fE83A8a806e5

0.6046

0xEd46bFFd4b8237a9c7E08f55F0B410544f989813

0.6046

0xfBd00109886216BFBb0570e28fAC905a4ed7AC26

0.6046

0x9e7fa612eb6E771B0E918D94A0d524D6666Fa07E

0.6046

0x9d6d3b09F8AC8615805bd82e53B80D956F451CFa

0.6129

0x661b81d462D80786c442774F452464A8C627a20E

0.6212

0xe2A296b3d3AD4212b6030442e70419ff7B82FEE4

0.6212

0xB7b93e217dd4E6E700E7362cB234d6258438D3b7

0.6212

0x78ac9c2545850bEDbC076EB30ce7A6f0D74b395E

0.6373

0x2D56Cd519540bE541A3261E22e95d6507F5504Ca

0.6373

0x3210287ddEe6ece40d17A1F39799239b972A81F2

0.6373

0x153afFb96Fcb60085Ee307996Bdd2df0183A3682

0.6373

0x980a85ba6c2683e3509752dd3b4eB50165C0e65F

0.6373

0x2fb858991668840ce34F331402E0b3C66db078AF

0.6373

0x50122A5509F628e901F9c0238F0168833753239b

0.653

0x10c8597a5063A1648FfE13f54E996ba9bB3217B5

0.653

0xa1506f8DC05b1c22Ba23CBfd4625C68599196E91

0.653

0x0760E844e6f368ce73F1eEB917d37Db19375De3B

0.6684

0x71c15691e243bE88220957C784053EF0E084440B

0.6684

0xf0443945aD3BE9645382FC2537317dA97FEfF3A9

0.6684

0x5abAdE91eD4B6d11b666280CaCb3E4A32898f39B

0.676

0x2bf7b04F143602692bBDc3EcbeA68C2c65278eee

0.6834

0x84f678A3e7BA8Fc817c32Ff10884D6FB20976114

0.6834

0x0B916095200313900104bAcfc288462682C38700

0.6834

0x5AC41B7E73680a3E77B941fEE0BAD04F59c9bB7d

0.6834

0xCb8DC3beC7B659022aE0d3E9de17322F31e4AA7C

0.6981

0x4d5083dd10f2a46f26f5583c6679f9f8d30ae850

0.7125

0xbC349D1BEeE33c61F0395d1667E70056B4C869B9

0.7405

0xC152fd31F285f6c0B3807070280595e7Ea713a7f

0.7405

0xe611a720778a5f6723d6b4866F84828504657181

0.7405

0x644177F8D79117c2b9C7596527642B3c2D05888E

0.7541

0xb721c2e6640D963e99b37B6437ABAF6914A25A5e

0.7674

0xF8843981e7846945960f53243cA2Fd42a579f719

0.7685

0x1E811588786841c713E68c37ef0CF60A967543EF

0.774

0xa1D76553266fA8Ed3D143794a462aaFAdfC34f74

0.7805

0x3eD7bf997b7A91e9e8aB9eE2F7ce983bd37D6392

0.787

0xFf9977FB117a22254a8eB6c6CE8d3Dd671FA70DC

0.787

0xf71E9C766Cdf169eDFbE2749490943C1DC6b8A55

0.787

0x9915C453cc779109013F1aF0c4639277e8257212

0.7934

0x925F5d6cCdB04F56fBa1cdcAd92E4eBb0d421411

0.7934

0x49Aa00072a7BA8a5639C43Fe9F6536820E6F5d57

0.8061

0xBc11295936Aa79d594139de1B2e12629414F3BDB

0.8061

0xC6cA7c3427AD6B7a06fbED6D18C394E540E31814

0.8186

0x46cD90445349e64F895c403c23839e79eb4065e4

0.8309

0xD55Bf29915D139777783bBA3Ae6237844823B73b

0.855

0x88dF07c605d13915B8E7D07dc8efD538dC0C5620

0.855

0x92699d64C65c435D4a60E2ceEaEb931dB8B1cA09

0.8668

0x35bc6a44AcFb79b5A47C1cbe2fD3C560a093a2B1

0.8668

0xE4b99f9580B90d88C3e6dC3E0B853D8D3b0B8B55

0.8668

0xa29576F07eAaD050AeACbc89AC0518B62fe2F88E

0.8785

0x80Bb92f389591d353654ac5580baefF7d0d6e778

0.8785

0xe05875F287C028901798aC2Dc8C22Ba908b8eF36

0.8899

0x004f67dabb603aaa58ed52641ccaff09c559704a

0.9013

0x799681f9b9d7c55ed59f5a0f235cAb132Cde0a2B

0.9013

0xb7A593EC62dc447eef23ea0e0B4d5144ac75ABC5

0.9013

0xD4a3030b5f5e8DD4860d370C17E8576aE9951a2D

0.9235

0x6e22a5e30088c8389dc725bbead5f0675334299f

0.9345

0x10ab73AA48D686b7FD9ec9D50418a14DD23f6631

0.9345

0x24113fFB07189D1e6E169025A424B58C29522972

0.9665

0x6B29132ea388a308578c1d3Be068D0e4fc9915a2

0.977

0x50d5e44700c10873875b4E75C4c9396562D83bE1

0.977

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0.9873

0xd20BebA9eFA30fB34aF93AF5c91C9a4d6854eAC4

0.9873

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0.9873

0x05618d6EFFe2E522F07B1dB692d47A68bfD6fFEa

1.0276

0xa87922d0074bCd82Ac82816633CcE68472548955

1.0375

0x86F34D8b98171281AB8bFe65C7e2718E4f002e35

1.0472

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1.0472

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1.0568

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1.0568

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1.0664

0x1de6938d9f9ebd43D0Cc56f0CeF1657D954c9A94

1.0664

0xCA186e78bf657d4C5694CA5CA448D3766d2b55Bb

1.0853

0x7c1c1C2DE344dcDd7db65E5D52C5E1Ea862C6139

1.0853

0x00a2d2d22f456125d64beda5a6f37273a13d9de0

1.0946

0x6fFd2248Ab7E80ef51D7Eb4CB60964C830125567

1.1038

0x3212974a4e53e5238f6ea193b36412db9ad61c26

1.1038

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1.113

0x376D5C3a16E9d015e8C584bB2d278E25F0ccb27B

1.113

0x9F60E4aF6020cc6a791B2d1Ce9902d25A72bA824

1.1221

0xF51fc4c6Ab075482b61F5C1d4E72fADaFf8815F3

1.14

0x3B16821A5dBBFF86E4a88eA0621EC6be016cd79A

1.14

0xe019836A41CB707F79b991f60e241918097aC16e

1.1577

0x299cB850bD75C07ef89978Bdc52e062Cc4fA0250

1.1577

0x8cbf722adfbc071a12aae158a12a68397578017c

1.1577

0xBFbeaB0896E29d0Db26ad60278d3Ab3C482BB199

1.1665

0xdF6C53Df56f3992FC44195518A2d8B16306Af9ff

1.1751

0xbB3F2F946E8eE2912830e365cF241293636cb057

1.1751

0x797AbA41FD90740a2cA970d6706Af05aDe09335B

1.1837

0x497f0D190C513f51eAC234628200a5E62271a7A5

1.2259

0xE9F19B6C72219f9B12C9c367405a90Ac9aFb2241

1.3292

0x974B9cb3c122561e3bf6234651E0b82B88Fb9015

1.3816

0x6591e7D655f248f6930195385C36b8D5Af679B8B

1.4035

0x9Bee5b17Eb847744b6a81Ee935409739F91c722c

1.4107

Quotes

We asked members to share why they think the Protocol Guild is important for Ethereum, below are their responses:

Adrian Manning (Lighthouse) - “Lighthouse is the Rust implementation of Ethereum Beacon Chain, a key component in Ethereum’s transition to PoS Although Lighthouse is one of a few major production Eth2 clients, it’s imperative that more than 1 production client is used in the space to avoid the chain collapsing if bugs/vulnerabilities are found in a single client. Protocol Guild supports the teams working on minority clients, which is an important initiative.”

Alex Stokes (EF Research) - “The Protocol Guild is an experiment in public goods funding that aims to align the incentives of core protocol contributors with the continued stewardship of the ecosystem by allowing these contributors to share in the value created by their hard work. This mechanism is important for the future of Ethereum as it ensures continuity of protocol direction, maintenance, and growth amongst a set of dedicated individuals who deeply care about realizing the collective vision that inspires everyone who interacts with our community.”

Alex Vlasov (TXRX) - “Ethereum - and blockchains, in general - unveils tremendous opportunities and one of them is building a more fair world. Protocol Guild serves several purposes: 1. It’s an instrument for public goods funding, which is often underrated 2. It’s a research and an exploration of innovative social mechanisms 3. It aims to support Ethereum Protocol contributors”

Ansgar Dietrichs (EF Research) - “I strongly believe that not enshrining a contributor funding mechanism into the base chain was the correct choice for Ethereum (crucial for its credible neutrality). But in order to keep attracting top level talent to the core dev space, we need to experiment with out-of-protocol ways of funding. Protocol Guild is a very exciting project in that regard and hopefully a first step towards a sustainable funding structure.”

Anton Nashatyrev (TXRX) - “I would really love to see Guild as an instrument for long term incentivisation of people who just want to develop Ethereum and don’t want to worry about buying food for themselves tomorrow ”

Carl Beekhuizen (EF Research) - “As researchers we spend a lot of time worrying about incentive compatibility. This guild nudges us towards a better incentive landscape for those working on the protocol.”

Core Contributor - “A huge ecosystem is building up upon the base Ethereum protocol. If we want this base layer to remain independent and maintained like a true public good, incentive alignment is a key factor. Let’s make the Protocol Guild an inspiring and successful experiment! ”

Core Contributor - “Decentralized Apps. Decentralized Ecosystem. Decentralized Funding.”

Core Contributor - “Decentralized eco-systems are hard to build, and client diversity is harder but super important for a robust social code consensus on a protocol. That requires on-par commitment, perseverance, continuous innovation, learning and contributions. And not to mention community support!”

Core Contributor - “Ethereum base layer is a core part of the Ethereum ecosystem. Incentivising people to keep contributing to the protocol will ensure the longevity of the network as well as let applications built on top of Ethereum thrive and become more accessible to the wide public. The Protocol Guild is a good start and I am excited to be part of it.”

Core Contributor - “Ethereum is bigger than the Ethereum Foundation - there’s an entire community of teams and individuals doing important work. However, many depend on salaries from an entity they are associated with. The PG project fills this vacancy and lets the community fund protocol devs. This decentralized funding mechanism will be critical for attracting and retaining Ethereum protocol builders.”

Core Contributor - “Ethereum is public infrastructure for the world. Building infrastructure is hard, because everyone wants to enjoy it, but no one wants to be the chump left paying the bill, which often induces zero-sum thinking and protecting one’s own interests rather than contributing. Protocol Guild ensures stability for those who choose to contribute and creates an environment of positive-sum thinking, powered entirely by the Ethereum ecosystem and the value it brings to the world.”

Core Contributor - “I believe Protocol Guild will produce good incentives for Core Devs to stay focused on building the protocol.”

Core Contributor - “I believe this experiment will result in a great precedent on how to keep the core values of the Ethereum protocol alive and relevant.”

Core Contributor - “I think open source is really important today and is one of the pillars of the world today, and it is going to be more and more important in future, but as today a proper way to reward its developers is missing, so I hope that this experiment will create the basis for a wider approach that could improve the sustainability of open source development.”

Core Contributor - “Incentive alignment is one of the core issues that impact the long term health of a software/network. I think the Protocol Guild helps solve a part of the incentive alignment problem by allowing members to gain exposure to the network they are developing. I feel like it will go a long way in helping keep and onboard new core developers, as well as ensure everyone has skin in the game.”

Core Contributor - “It is important that we allow those that contribute to the core protocol the opportunity to be financially rewarded on a similar scale as those that choose to operate in the private sector. Without such a mechanism, the choice to work on the core protocol is also a choice to forfeit monetary rewards offered elsewhere, which in many cases, will lead to continual attrition of talent into the private sector.”

Core Contributor - “It is important to retain talent in this industry, and the Protocol Guild provides a mechanism for doing so. Decentralized public goods funding of the researchers and developers that build the underlying technology have good chances of benefitting the applications built on top, long term.”

Core Contributor - “It should help to bring and keep talents in the Ethereum core dev group.”

Core Contributor - “It’s great to see the incentive problem trying to be solved for existing and also new core contributors.”

Core Contributor - “It’s sad that those who develop open technologies have historically profited far less than those who build on top of open technologies. I think that the Protocol Guild is the start of something very important to Ethereum.”

Core Contributor - “Let’s make base layer r&d long term sexy!”

Core Contributor - “maybe the log4j exploit might not have happened with more funding, let’s try to make the same not happening on Ethereum.”

Core Contributor - “Motivating talent towards Ethereum development is critical to stay competitive in this dynamic industry.”

Core Contributor - “Protocol contributors enable the creation of value. Rewarding them proportionally to the value created can sustain their work and attract additional talent. Token contributions from successful projects is a great way to achieve that.”

Core Contributor - “Protocol Guild is a great way to reward Ethereum core developers for the infrastructure work that they are doing.”

Core Contributor - “Protocol Guild is a platform for the community to acknowledge and appreciate the talent and dedication that keeps Ethereum going.”

Core Contributor - “Protocol Guild is one of the most important efforts within Ethereum right now because it creates an independent parallel structure for supporting core development. This is very unique across the whole crypto ecosystem where we see many projects struggling from lack of decentralized support of contributors. ”

Core Contributor - “prysm implements the ethereum beacon chain proof of stake protocol. The beacon chain is important because eliminating proof of work is a moral imperative. Multiple implementations of the beacon chain do and should exist for the resilience of the network. prysm is written in go, which is a language designed to minimize the complexity of strongly typed, highly concurrent source code. This means that prysm can be performant, have good support for safety and correctness, while also being built from source code that is easier to read and audit than other system languages. More eyes on the implementation should lead to greater understanding of how the system works and more confidence in the network.”

Core Contributor - “The Ethereum ecosystem is capable of delivering enormous value. But a huge disparity has arisen between the rewards available to those who build the Ethereum protocol and those who build on the Ethereum protocol. The whole community should be concerned about this: unless the foundations are continually maintained and improved, the entire building is at risk. Almost uniquely, our own technology gives us the tools to align all our incentives. The Protocol Guild is a creative approach to recognising and rewarding the foundation-builders - essential if we want to continue to deliver on Ethereum’s promise long into the future.”

Core Contributor - “The Ethereum Foundation, however successful beyond what might have been reasonably expected of it, still comprises a single point of failure. The protocol guild can help ensure the values the foundation has helped shepherd can sustainably adapt in a decentralized fashion consistent with Ethereum’s core principles.”

Core Contributor - “The Guild will help retain existing and attract new talented contributors to the Ethereum revolution.”

Core Contributor - “The Protocol Guild will help ensure Ethereum provides the world with the decentralized future it needs.”

Core Contributor - “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. But without the parts there is no whole. This project addresses the parts without diminishing the whole.”

Core Contributor - “With its rewards beyond casual wages or project grants, Protocol Guild inspires members to apply their efforts to the Ethereum development in unrehearsed ways and directions where forces of EF and big companies are missed. It preserves the strong community engagement over major pathways, which safeguards Ethereum’s decentralization.”

Danny Ryan (EF Protocol Support) - “Public goods are hard.”

Dmitry Khovratovich (EF Research) - “We work on a number of projects: VDFs, zero knowledge protocols, validator secure selection, – which all make Ethereum 2.0 faster, secure, and simple. We are taking the best from the most advanced cryptographic schemes today, and sometimes invent new ones.”

Fredrik Svantes (EF Security) - “Funding public goods/FOSS, especially on an individual level, is hard. Protocol Guild helps make this easier for individuals from across the world to partake in the future of Ethereum without also having to be part of a larger organization. By creating this sustainable effort, the Protocol Guild is helping to further provide long term health of the protocol layer, which is crucial for the applications running on top of it, by rewarding those who help build it.”

Gabriel (EF JavaScript) - “The sustainable and community-driven funding mechanic introduced by the Protocol guild will increasingly become, I believe, a foundation ensuring the perennity of the Ethereum ecosystem. It aligns us with our core decentralization ethos while at the same time rewarding and incentivizing long-term contributions to a groundbreaking public good.”

Gary Schulte (Hyperledger Besu) - “Narrowing the incentive gap between Ethereum core-protocol work and the more lucrative application space is an important effort worth putting time and resources into. ”

Holger Drewes (EF JavaScript) - “The Protocol Guild is a great chance to align core protocol incentivization with the core values Ethereum stands for.”

Jason Carver (EF Portal) - “We should explore many approaches for supporting collaboration. It’s a valuable and hard problem to generate and maintain public goods.”

Jiri Peinlich (Hyperledger Besu) - “We should be among the first who try new ways of organizing enabled by the decentralized paradigm. This example will hopefully inspire other groups to self organize and self govern. ”

Jordan Hrycaj (Status) - “Giving as much agency to independent contributors as possible.”

Justin Florentine (Hyperledger Besu) - “Funding public goods is a hard problem, I look forward to making some mistakes along the way so others can learn from us. Someone’s gotta try!”

Kamil Sliwak (EF Solidity) - “I appreciate the idea behind Protocol Guild not only because it attempts to incentivize the work on the core protocols (which is very much needed), but also because of how it does it. I think there’s a very real need on the side of potential funders to know that their donations are addressing a real need and are reaching the right people. The group of protocol developers is a constantly moving target so by curating membership, Protocol Guild will make it easy to contribute towards it as a whole. I think that for the donor it will be more fulfilling than having to hand-pick individual developers or projects. The space does not suffer from the lack of funds and what is needed is really just a sensible way of channeling the available resources to where they can do the most good.”

Mark Mackey (Lighthouse) - “Every core developer I’ve talked to is well aware that they can earn significantly more working in other fields or even just at the application layer. I personally couldn’t even afford to join this effort until I was able to subsidize myself. This is strange for an industry acutely aware of incentive structures. If we care about the long-term heath of the base layer, it is important we mitigate this so we can attract and retain talent.”

Michael Sproul (Lighthouse) - “I love that Protocol Guild centers individual contributors ahead of organisations, and in doing so grants autonomy to all of the people working on Ethereum’s base layer. We have an opportunity to prove the viability of an alternative funding model for public goods, which I hope will inspire many more experiments in radical economic coordination.”

Nazar Hussain (Lodestar) - “Mass adoption is the fundamental requirement for any disruptive innovation that could change the world. And for that infrastructure involving that innovation is the key pillar. The Protocol Guild can strengthen that pillar and hence will prove to be the best operational strategy for the betterment of the Ethereum Ecosystem. ”

Nishant Das (Prysmatic) - “The Protocol Guild helps keep core developers focused on protocol work rather than jumping to the application layer where the upside is significantly more. Having a sustainable source of funding for public goods such as protocol work is valuable. ”

Phil Ngo (Lodestar) - “Protocol developers and researchers create the base foundation for which Ethereum stands upon. The amount of responsibility bestowed upon them is not necessarily incentivized monetarily nor does value generated on Ethereum trickle down to the base layer for protocol development. The protocol guild is a valuable experiment to incentivize great minds to contribute to the long-term future of Ethereum while having their basic needs met.”

Pooja Ranjan (Ethereum Cat Herders) - “Incentivizing contributors is a great way to keep them motivated for ongoing work. Many of us started as volunteers and I am expecting more to join in the future. Protocol Guild is a well planned initiative to incentivize community contributors to the Ethereum protocol development work.”

potuz (Prysmatic) - “End user applications stand on the shoulders of core development. In a world with multiple competing personal and institutional interests, this project helps keeping those interests as far away from core Ethereum development as possible.”

Preston Van Loon (Prysmatic) - “Client software powers the Ethereum network! Crafting mechanisms to support the teams working on it long into the future is an important project.”

Raul Jordan (Prysmatic) - “The Ethereum Foundation has a philosophy of subtraction. That is, it aims to be irrelevant over time as grassroots teams take over development, research, and community. We started working on a consensus client because of the immense potential we see in introducing new engineers to build public goods for Ethereum, just as we did. We believe being an independent team that has built a popular client helps inspire others to do the same and grow the ethos of Ethereum’s decentralized development. hopefully the Protocol Guild will also inspire more contributors to join us in maintaining the core protocol.”

Taran Singh (Prysmatic) - “I believe a future with a sustainable financial system is only possible when the people behind its success are working towards a common purpose without restriction and strings attached.”

Tim Beiko (EF Protocol Support) - “Aligning the incentives of the people supporting the Ethereum protocol with the success of the applications built on top of it allows these motivated contributors to keep doing what they do best, building Ethereum, while also being rewarded with some of the value they help create. ”

Tomasz Stanzeck (Nethermind) - “Protocol Guild is a well planned and honestly designed experiment for protocol development.”

Trenton Van Epps (EF Protocol Support) - “The Protocol Guild is Ethereum itself beginning to comprehend its agency - I’m happy to be part of such an important initiative. Long-term maintenance of foundational internet infrastructure should accrue material social, cultural and financial benefits to contributors.”

Zahary Karadzhov (Status) - “This project can empower many individual contributors to start working on Ethereum without the backing of a large corporate sponsor.”